Quotes About Mercy

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

I could have been known for something terrible.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness

Confess your sins, worship God, and get on with your life. You can experience the mercy of God no matter what you've been through.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus." (EPH. 2:4–6)

A great majority of Terrans were idealists, and they believed fervently in concepts such as truth, justice, mercy, and the like. And not only did they believe, they also let those noble concepts guide their actions—except when it would be inconvenient or unprofitable. When that happened, they acted expediently, but continued to talk moralistically. This meant that they were "hypocrites" —a term which every race has its counterpart of.

There is oppression in the world below: Earth groans beneath the yoke; yea, in her woe, She asks if the Avenger's eye is blind? Awake, O Lord, awake! Too long thy vengeance sleepeth. Holy One! Put thou thy terrors on for mercy's sake, And strike the blow, in justice to mankind!

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God!

The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is random or purposeful. If it's purposeful, we can fight it, it's hard to defeat, but we have a chance, like two boxers in the same weight class, more or less. If it's random, on the other hand, we're fucked, and we'll just have to hope that God, if He exists, has mercy on us. And that's what it all comes down to.

God have mercy on my soul. Sometimes I wish they'd all just die. My friend and his mother and his father and my aunt and all the neighbors and passers-by and drivers who leave their cars parked by the river and even the poor innocent children who run around in the park beside the river. God have pity on my soul and make me better. Or unmake me.

En cualquier caso, terminaba Bibiano su carta, no se mata a nadie por escribir mal, menos si aún no ha cumplido los veinte años.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

There is, in all honesty, no way to kill someone mercifully. There are those who count it no crime to drown an imperfect newborn in warm water, as if the infant will not struggle desperately to draw air into its lungs. Did it not try to breathe, it would not drown. But they do not hear the screams nor feel the darkening of the mind that the child endures, so they have been merciful. To themselves. This is true of most "mercy killings.

grant your mercy, lend me your strength. Mercy, on an indrawn breath, Strength as he breathed out.

God's time for mercy will come in fact, it has alredy come of our time for believing has arrived Ask in faith without wavering, but never cease to petition the king

Shame of you. Grace on you.

I know. And that's the thing about grace. And love, too. They're not fair at all.

When it comes to God] We can't run out of second chances...only time.

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.